Adeola Tukuru Abuja-
Consumer Protection Council (CPC), has disclosed that the wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, will fl ag off the commemoration of the 2017 World Consumer Rights Day to further stimulate the country’s crusade against consumer right abuses in the digital age.
Th e Council’s DirectorGeneral, Mrs. Dupe Atoki, who made this known in a statement at the weekend in Abuja, disclosed that the wife of the president will be performing the ceremony in her capacity as the Consumer Ambassador of Nigeria. Atoki said the Council’s decision with respect to the wife of the President while addressing the National Convention of the National Council of Women’s Societies NCWS, on July 15, 2016 at the Women Development Centre in Abuja. According to the statement, Mrs. Buhari will fl ag off the Day’s commemoration with the inspection of exhibition stands of businesses involved in the use of digital systems, such as banks, e-commerce providers, satellite television providers, manufacturers/ providers of computer hardware, telecommunications providers, among others. CPC disclosed that the investiture of Mrs. Buhari as the Consumer Ambassador of Nigeria will be performed on the World Consumer Rights Day, and that soon after the investiture, the President’s wife will conduct an inspection of exhibition stands of businesses mounted to educate consumers on various concerns relating to products and services involved in the use of digital systems.
Th e Council hinted that the commemoration, whose theme is Building a Digital World Consumers Can Trust, would involve a two-day programme, consisting of the investiture of the President’s wife, a stakeholders’ workshop and consumers’ inspection of exhibition stands of businesses.
Th e agency said the stakeholders’ workshop, which is scheduled for Th ursday, March 16, 2017, will feature presentations from Google, Microsoft, the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit, among others. It would be recalled that CPC on Friday, July 15, 2016, named Mrs. Buhari as the Consumer Ambassador of Nigeria, while fl agging off its nationwide grassroots consumer awareness programme with the country’s womenfolk as part of its strategies at stemming consumer abuses in Nigeria.
Atoki, while extolling the virtues of the President’s wife at the event, said the Council’s “initiative to ensure Nigerian women know their rights can fi nd no better personality to identify with its cause than Hajia Aisha Buhari.”
